Microsoft open-sources the .NET core
Microsoft has announced
that the .NET core code is now available under an open-source (MIT)
license. "As a .NET developer you were able to build & run code on
more than just Windows for a while now, including Linux, MacOS, iOs and
Android. The challenge is that the Windows implementation has one code
base while Mono has a complete separate code base. The Mono community was
essentially forced to re-implement .NET because no open source
implementation was available." Amusingly, the code has been placed
on GitHub; the announcement notes that code located there gets far more
contributions than code on Microsoft's own "CodePlex" site.